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Measuring Sexual Motives: A Test of the Psychometric Properties of the Sexual Motivations Scale
The Journal of Sex Research, 2016Sexual motives refer to functions served by sexual behavior. The Sex Motivations Scale (SMS) has frequently been used to assess sexual motives. At its development, the SMS demonstrated good internal consistency; convergent, divergent, and criterion validity; and configural invariance across sex, age, and Caucasians and African Americans. Yet the metric
Charles, Jardin +2 more
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AbstractThis chapter traces the development of adolescent heterosexual ethics and norms, including their motivations to avoid sex or engage in sex. It documents what types of adolescents are likely to take abstinence pledges, how well they work, and the sexual and familial idealism they portray. It also explores the popular but vaguely defined theme of
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AbstractThis chapter traces the development of adolescent heterosexual ethics and norms, including their motivations to avoid sex or engage in sex. It documents what types of adolescents are likely to take abstinence pledges, how well they work, and the sexual and familial idealism they portray. It also explores the popular but vaguely defined theme of
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Sexual Minority Women’s Sexual Motivation Around the Time of Ovulation
Archives of Sexual Behavior, 2010We investigated whether motivation for same-sex sexual contact was related to mid-cycle peaks in estrogen levels (typically associated with ovulation) among women with consistent versus inconsistent patterns of same-sex sexuality. Twenty women (M age = 30 years), all of whom have been providing data on their sexual behavior and identities since 1995 ...
Lisa M, Diamond, Kim, Wallen
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Sexual orientation and sexual motivation of the adult male rat
Physiology & Behavior, 1993Intact sexually experienced male rats were allowed to choose between staying in the vicinity of an estrous female or a sexually active male under different conditions of sexual arousal. In one group, the animals were allowed to perform two intromissions before the start of the partner preference test.
J, Vega Matuszczyk, K, Larsson
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Sexual Motives in Heterosexual Women With and Without Sexual Difficulties
Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 2016Previous research indicates that women with sexual problems may have different reasons for engaging in sex than women who are not experiencing sexual problems. The current study investigated whether reasons for sex differed by women reporting high versus low overall sexual functioning, as assessed by the Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI) (Rosen et al.
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Sexual incentive motivation, sexual behavior, and general arousal
Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews, 2022Sexual incentive stimuli activate sexual motivation and heighten the level of general arousal. The sexual motive may induce the individual to approach the incentive, and eventually to initiate sexual acts. Both approach and the ensuing copulatory interaction further enhance general arousal.
Ågmo, Anders, Laan, Ellen
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Sexual Motivation in Mateships and Sexual Conflict
2012The most frequent conflict within human mateships is the conflict between male sexual persistence and female sexual resistance. This conflict is nearly absent in the formation phase of a mateship and intensifies with time. It is rooted in sex-specific evolved programs encountering each other: a female program to secure male assistance and ...
Dietrich Klusmann, Wolfgang Berner
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Sexual Motivation And Behaviour
2019Reproduction by sexual means is a universal characteristic of multicellular living organisms. In most animal species, this process is dangerous; vigilance is reduced and vulnerability to predators increased. In mammals, the pattern of hormonal control of the female’s sexual behaviour varies across species.
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Sexual Behaviour and Sexual Motivation in the Female Rat
Nature, 1973Is the sexual behaviour of the female rat pure reflex, or does oestrus also stimulate active efforts to approach the male? Male rats will learn to run an alley if rewarded with an oestrous female, and their performance in the alley is then controlled by the same hormone that controls the mating acts, testosterone1.
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Revisiting the Concept of Sexual Motivation
Annual Review of Sex Research, 1999(1999). Revisiting the Concept of Sexual Motivation. Annual Review of Sex Research: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 120-156.
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